Leading Off

October 14, 2002

Body LanguageSports take, and make, all kinds of bodies, from tiny to towering, from buff to beefy. On this and the next two spreads are 72 of the 130 men and women—swimmers and shot-putters, jumpers and jockeys, powerlifters and point guards, runners and rhythmic gymnasts, a flyweight and a sumo-photographed by Howard Schatz for his book Athlete, published this month by HarperCollins.